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Tuesday, April 1
What: "Beyond the Natasha Effect:
Determinants of Human Trafficking
Policy Variation in the Post-Soviet Region"
When: 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
Where: Bailey Hall, 318
About: A lecture with Laura Dean of
the Political Science department.
Admittance is free.
Wednesday, April 2
What: Peace Corps Coffee Chat
When: 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Where: Henry's Coffee Shop, 11 E.
8th St.
About: An informal discussion over coffee for those interested in the Peace Corps and international travel. Free to attend.
What: The Brave New World of Political Communications: Lessons from the Obama Campaigns
When: 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Where: Dole Institute of Politics, Simons Media Room
About: Dole Fellow Mark Sump will examine political communication strategies that resulted in two Obama victories. Admittance is free.
Thursday, April 3
What: Film Screening: "One Day After Peace"
When: 5:30 p.m.
Where: Spencer Museum of Art auditorium
About: A documentary showing the perspective of a woman who has experienced South African apartheid and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict firsthand. A short panel discussion will follow, and admittance is free.
What: 5th Annual Mid-America Humanities Conference
When: 12 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Where: Kansas Union
About: A conference for undergraduate and graduate research sponsored by the Humanities and Western Civ. program. Also takes place on Friday, April 4, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Kansas Union.
What: Subversive play in the classroom: The power of immersion in learning
learning
When: 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
Where: Budig Hall, 135
About: A seminar with Peter Felten of Elon University and Leslie Tuttle of the KU Department of History.
Attendance is free, and lunch will be provided if registered by April 2. To register, email cte@ku.edu.
Friday, April 4
What: Human Migration Lecture Series: Chickens coming "home to roost": U.S. Policy Spurring Mexican and Central American Migration When: 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. Where: Spooner Hall, The Commons The Department of Anthropology brings the latest lecture exploring human migration from social, economic, demographic and biological perspectives. Free to attend.
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What: Ecology Seminar: John Head, University of Kansas
When: 12:15 p.m. to 1:15 p.m.
Where: Higuchi Biosciences Center, 130
About: A seminar from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology titled "Global Legal Regimes to Protect the World's Grasslands."
Student's weight, company motivate others
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Waira Mungai had been trying to lose weight since he was in fifth grade; every time he attempted, he gained it all back. It wasn't until he changed his mentality that he was able to accomplish losing 125 pounds.
Mungai, a junior from McPherson, still remembers the revelation that occurred on a February morning when he was a freshman in high school that sparked his success.
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"It was February 1st. It was cold outside, snow on the ground, and I was getting ready for school," Mungai sad. "I had my last pair of jeans on. We were running late so my mom was already irritated at me. Getting into the car, I bent over to fit in my backpack and ripped my last pair of jeans."
"I was really embarrassed; I was frustrated with myself," Mungai said. "Under the surface, I always wanted to lose weight. It would have been
He went to school that day wearing shorts, subjecting him to the ridicule of other students.
After that, Mungai changed his diet and began exercising. By the end of the first week, he had lost 9 pounds. This initial success kept him going and by the beginning of his sophomore year he had lost more than 100 pounds.
"At the beginning of the next school year, I walked in and it was like a totally new world," Mungai said. "When I came back, it felt like I was free. People were opening doors for me, looking in my direction and smiling at me. People were opening up conversations with me who I'd never talked to before."
like winning the lottery for me."
He now uses his weight loss story to inspire others and maintain his own company. His combined experience with both the physical and mental repercussions of weight loss are the basis for his new company. Mungal operates from WairaFit, his YouTube channel, but eventually he hopes to create his own motivational website.
Mungai hopes to step away from other weight loss companies and create something unique. He helps people to lose weight through more
conversational, psychological methods rather than just physical methods. Mungai asks his clients why they want to lose weight instead of how.
"What we really focus on is the mentality of the day-in, day-out struggle," Mungai said. "I want to create a viable solution for the masses, something that focuses more on the ability to have will-power and be consistent rather than the actual strategy necessary for losing weight or being fit or just gaining muscle."
Branden Halbach, Mungai's friend since middle school, was inspired by his success story.
"As crazy as it sounds, it started through jealousy," Halbach said. "I was jealous that someone just like me had come back to school and changed the whole face of the game. I later came to terms and realized I want that for me. I want to change and be part of that."
Halbach has also benefitted from Mungai's psychological approach to weight loss. He explained how after workouts he and Mungai would sit and think about success, where they
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are now, where they want to be, and how they're going to get there. He recalls every day being "constant mind strengthening."
To this day Halbach credits Mungai with changing his life.
in the sense that he has given me my life today," he said. "I would not be where I'm at or done what I've done without him. So many things have come to me, that I thought I'd never see."
"He's impacted my life today
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